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I wasn't confusing anything. Tax cuts for the upper class are designed to promote investment, with the result being higher financial stability for businesses, with the result being pay increases and new hiring, with the result being increased consumer demand, with the result being profits for the upper class, with the result a promotion of investment. Repeat.
The goal is to increase consumer demand - if all goes according to plan. But it doesn't all go according to plan. On the other hand, giving the bulk of the tax cuts to the middle class would have directly increased consumer demand - side-stepping the pre-requisites as noted above.
Bush could have targetted the tax cuts to the middle class instead of the upper class and there would likely have been a larger bump in the economy - and if there was not, that's ok too because atleast the majority of the people benefitted from the cuts as opposed to almost exclusively the upper class.
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